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  1. LastPommerFan
    The NHL gave the SE division champion a 3 seed for 2 decades. They can seed 'em however they want.
  2. LastPommerFan
    agreed, I'd like to see hockey move to giving the conference champions seeds 1-6 (so the 4 1's and the 2's that get paired with the 3rd and 4th 1's).
  3. LastPommerFan
    68 out of 349 teams make the dance.
  4. LastPommerFan
    At least 4 top 40 forwards and 1 or 2 from the top 5. the year after next is going to be fun. if we all survive the winter of our discon-tank.
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    I see your point. I'll go see it, and give it a chance. If it sucks it sucks, but can't write it off simply because a set of characters created by commercialization is being commercialized.
  7. LastPommerFan
    We're talking about characters who were created as a joke, picked up to market merchandise, and spent the first decade as a kids animated series, right? It's not like we're talking about a comic book hero with decades of history.
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    Did they take out the part where the mutated turtles have ninja weapons and fight bad guys?
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    And this is Northwestern, with a huge endowment and private resources. Imagine what it's like at a school like The University of South Alabama.
  11. LastPommerFan
    In my model, the colleges still control the teams, initially. So Syracuse Football is still a thing, it's just that, in addition to the student athletes, there are other players who were drafted rather than signed an academic letter of intent. The athletes just don't have to be students any more, but they can be.
  12. LastPommerFan
    How about we just convert all of D-1A/FBS football into the American Major Junior Football League. Teams automatically have the rights to all players who are currently enrolled in good standing at their school. 17 year olds not intending to attend college classes are entered in a draft held on what was National Signing Day. Would it work?
  13. LastPommerFan
    This discussion really needs to separate "D-1 Athletes" from "Huge Budget Athletic Department Cash Cow Sport Athletes". There are very few similarities between the Point Guard in Chapel Hill and the Pole Vaulter at Kent State.
  14. LastPommerFan
    Once I get the kickstarter set up for his Cubist Novella (tentatively titled "Frack Envy"), I'll give you the honor of being the first supporter.
  15. LastPommerFan
    I agree, like most labor organizing moments, it is largely the result of the management/athletic department too long failing to address real and important concerns of the employees/"student athletes". I've been through all the fun Union Avoidance training large american manufacturers can offer. The message is always the same: Content Employees won't organize.
  16. LastPommerFan
    I would like your permission to bundle them and market them as a cubist novella.
  17. LastPommerFan
    One of the things they are organizing for is to have their scholarships guaranteed. As it is right now, if they get cut or hurt they can lose their ride. Another thing they are after is durable health coverage for injuries sustained while playing. Currently, they are mostly on their own after they stop playing.
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    :-)
  19. LastPommerFan
    yes, yes, yes. They got greedy and it's going to eat them now. but I don't agree that it will cause an elimination of, say, track. Track athletes just won't get paid as much.
  20. LastPommerFan
    NLRB rules that, in revenue sports, athletes are employees. http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10677763/northwestern-wildcats-football-players-win-bid-unionize If colleges start paying athletes, It could be a huge incentive to bring top Juniors Players to the NCAA.
  21. LastPommerFan
    I thought the comments so far have been pretty nice. Especially for a thread dedicated to ripping Mr. Willson.
  22. LastPommerFan
    He'd play goalie.
  23. LastPommerFan
    It's just a Dog, man, not Jesus Gretzky Orr, and even then...
  24. LastPommerFan
    nice calgary
  25. LastPommerFan
    Can't we still potentially catch them in ROW?
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